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Acknowledging that all undergraduate students are required to take science courses as part of their �鶹ӰԺ education, and that �鶹ӰԺ State’s faculty conduct world-class scientific research that advances knowledge and contributes to Ohio’s economic development, the university’s Board of Trustees today (Dec. 3) approved a $94.75-million investment in science facilities that will benefit virtually every member of the university community. The Board approved construction of a $37.55-million Integrated Sciences Building for the College of Arts and Sciences, and in a separate action, t...

�鶹ӰԺ’s College of Business Administration and Department of Economics are ranked in the top 25 percent of research institutions in Ohio by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. In addition, �鶹ӰԺ State’s Lockwood Reynolds, Ph.D., an associate professor of economics, is ranked in the top 100 economists worldwide whose first publication was five or fewer years ago. “The Department of Economics at �鶹ӰԺ is ranked among the top 25 percent of institutions in Ohio in a study which analyzes data on authors of scholarly work done by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Lou...

The documentary film May 4th Voices: �鶹ӰԺ State, 1970, created by two �鶹ӰԺ collaborators, is a recipient of the 2014 Oral History Association’s Oral History in a Nonprint Format Award. The Oral History Association is an organization that seeks to bring together all people interested in oral history as a way of collecting and interpreting human memories to foster knowledge and human dignity. Kenneth Bindas, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of History, and David Hassler, the director of the Wick Poetry Center, both in �鶹ӰԺ State’s College of Arts and Sciences, worke...

A new on-campus mediation service is underway at �鶹ӰԺ for students experiencing conflict. Student Mediation Services, which began this fall, is led by Jacquelyn Bleak and is located at 118 Twin Towers on the �鶹ӰԺ Campus. Although the office is providing services now for students, its main focus this semester is conducting a needs assessment of all students. The assessment includes formal and informal surveys, as well as focus groups, to narrow down the particular needs of �鶹ӰԺ State students. “If I know how students deal with conflict in their everyday life, I can ...

The �鶹ӰԺ Board of Trustees will hold its next regular business meeting Wednesday, Dec. 3. The Board will convene at 2 p.m. in the George Urban Board of Trustees Conference Room, which is located on the second floor of the �鶹ӰԺ Campus Library. Trustees will retire into executive session at 8 a.m. to consider specific topics as provided for under Ohio’s “Sunshine Law.”   Trustees will meet as a Committee of the Whole from 8:45-10:20 a.m. This will be followed by Board standing committee meetings as follows: Academic Excellence and Student Success Committee – 10:...

Dr. Patrick Coy, Director of �鶹ӰԺ State's Center for Applied Conflict Management, was interviewed by WAKR about what positive, constructive conflict management steps can now be taken in Ferguson, Missouri, after a grand jury failed to return an indictment in the Michael Brown shooting.   ...